andy112382
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So I've been thinking about the game yesterday and after sleeping on it and thinking about the game in general, and sadly reading the 'sky is falling' comments by people who tend to panic more than my cat does when our 10 month old starts reaching for her tail......
Alright so fact of the matter #1 - Oregon is a dang good team. I mean, you don't score 40+ in 9 of your last 15 on accident including against then #6 Cal and #5 USC last season. We played them close enough in the 1st half that the announcers said you couldn't tell who was #7 and who was unranked. If that isn't a cause for optimism I don't know what is.
Now, of course the 2nd half rolls around and we go down a touchdown, then we have Stocker wide open and have an inelgible guy down field and the throw gets rushed as well, then a pick 6 sends our team into 'we have to make big plays just to have a chance' and that is where they stopped playing assignment football and that is when Oregon will destroy you, period. That is very fixable and just a matter of coaching this young team, in other words we will find out just what kind of coaches we have, and I still have full faith in them given how fundamentally sound they have been excluding the 2nd half last night when they went into panic mode as some here and almost everyone at govols.com have done.
Especially with a young team like ours, one game will not define our season, that goes for good or bad games. They are building their experience, and I am not even going to claim to know how many wins we might get, 4, 5, 6, 7? Who knows...no one! We know very little about this team simply because of how many new faces there are and we do not know how much they will grow throughout the year, but starters will be defined and leaders will surface, that only takes place during the season. I am not even going to touch that whole 'Pull Simms for Bray' stuff, I think Bray will be awesome, but Simms has one pick this year and wasn't responsible for a 27yd punt, a punt return for a TD or the iffy-late hit call, among other things. But the 2nd string QB will always be more popular, way too early to start saying to overhaul the offense, though.
This seems like it will be one of those up and down years, a lot like 2007, we lose to UCLA, were absolutely detroyed against Florida and Bama but ended up playing for an SEC title. And no, don't jump to 'quick reply' thinking I am saying we're going to win the east, I am not, like I said I have no idea what will happen this year as none of us do. But I don't see us finishing below Kentucky and Vandy, either. Tell me how many SEC schools would have beat up on Oregon last night...Bama perhaps, but who else? I haven't seen anyone impress me enough in the SEC to make me think otherwise and that also shows you that some of those automatic losses people assumed such as Florida, LSU, Georgia, SC, and Ole Miss aren't so automatic either way yet.
Anywho, I knew I would ramble but I had been thinking everything over today, bottom line is there is way too much season left and way too many unknowns to claim you know how this season will go, good or bad. And for some reason people assume unknown = always bad, not the case. I am 100% still with the players and coaches.
GO VOLS!!!
Alright so fact of the matter #1 - Oregon is a dang good team. I mean, you don't score 40+ in 9 of your last 15 on accident including against then #6 Cal and #5 USC last season. We played them close enough in the 1st half that the announcers said you couldn't tell who was #7 and who was unranked. If that isn't a cause for optimism I don't know what is.
Now, of course the 2nd half rolls around and we go down a touchdown, then we have Stocker wide open and have an inelgible guy down field and the throw gets rushed as well, then a pick 6 sends our team into 'we have to make big plays just to have a chance' and that is where they stopped playing assignment football and that is when Oregon will destroy you, period. That is very fixable and just a matter of coaching this young team, in other words we will find out just what kind of coaches we have, and I still have full faith in them given how fundamentally sound they have been excluding the 2nd half last night when they went into panic mode as some here and almost everyone at govols.com have done.
Especially with a young team like ours, one game will not define our season, that goes for good or bad games. They are building their experience, and I am not even going to claim to know how many wins we might get, 4, 5, 6, 7? Who knows...no one! We know very little about this team simply because of how many new faces there are and we do not know how much they will grow throughout the year, but starters will be defined and leaders will surface, that only takes place during the season. I am not even going to touch that whole 'Pull Simms for Bray' stuff, I think Bray will be awesome, but Simms has one pick this year and wasn't responsible for a 27yd punt, a punt return for a TD or the iffy-late hit call, among other things. But the 2nd string QB will always be more popular, way too early to start saying to overhaul the offense, though.
This seems like it will be one of those up and down years, a lot like 2007, we lose to UCLA, were absolutely detroyed against Florida and Bama but ended up playing for an SEC title. And no, don't jump to 'quick reply' thinking I am saying we're going to win the east, I am not, like I said I have no idea what will happen this year as none of us do. But I don't see us finishing below Kentucky and Vandy, either. Tell me how many SEC schools would have beat up on Oregon last night...Bama perhaps, but who else? I haven't seen anyone impress me enough in the SEC to make me think otherwise and that also shows you that some of those automatic losses people assumed such as Florida, LSU, Georgia, SC, and Ole Miss aren't so automatic either way yet.
Anywho, I knew I would ramble but I had been thinking everything over today, bottom line is there is way too much season left and way too many unknowns to claim you know how this season will go, good or bad. And for some reason people assume unknown = always bad, not the case. I am 100% still with the players and coaches.
GO VOLS!!!
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